Improved metal sole for boots and shoes



" MetalSole's forBoots and Shoesgand I do hereby dethe accompanying drawings andthe letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact iley `scitute part "of ,this specification, and represent in ture for tbe protection of soles for boots and shoes,

einem am er JAMES ruNnnnronnor NEW' HAVEN, CoNNnCriCnfr.

t i Letters Patent No. 104,643, dated 'June 21, 1870.

` IMPROVED METAL SOLE FOR BOOTS `.AND SHOES.

M The Schedule rererred to in these Letters Patent and naakjng part of the same.

the easy removal of the metal sole. The metal sole is secured by nails or screws through perforations in the metal sole, as shown in the drawing.

B isthe hee-I, with a flange, b, of similar construetion to the sole. llt is applied tothe heel and secured in the same manuel' as described for the sole.

C Vis the shank, cast and fitted tothe shank of" the boot, and is particularly useful for such laborers as use the shank of the boot in shoveling. v

` `\Vhile IV prefer to make these soies from cast metal, a first, because it is cheaper, and, second, because more durable, they may be struck up from Vsheet metal,

l do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming a metal sole for boots and shoes, as such, ani aware, is not new.

I claim as my invention y p As 'au article of manufacture, the metal sole A, provided'with 'the flange a, and so as to be secured' to the sole of the boot or shoe, substantially 'as described, and with or without'the heel or shank.

' JAMES PUNDERFORD.

To all chema-t 'may concern.- v i A Y Be it known that I, JAMES PUNDERFonD,of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have .invented a new Improvement in Clare the vfollowing, when taken 1n connection with scription of the sanie,`and which said drawings coni Figure 1, a perspeotivcview of the sole, and in p Figure 2, a perspective view of the same inverted. This invention relates to an article of manufacespecially for miners use, but `alike applicable for other labor-ing men,` and` consistsin a metal 4sole with -a `flangeextending up around the edge so as to close on` theleat-her sole and protect the edge and the upper of the boot, and with or without a sixnilarmetal shank and heel. i Y

Aisthe sole, formed of, the shape required to correspond to the sole of the boot, and with a iiange, a, around its edge, sothat the sole of the boot will t into the metal sole, and the ilange serve to prot-ect the edge, and at the same time to sustain and prevent Witnesses:

A.4 J. TIBBITs, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

